Sites like FaceBook and Linkedin are helping me reach my goal of reaching out to old friends. I have found both of these sites useful in finding and reaching out to old friends and former colleagues.

I find that MySpace is geared towards people of a younger demographic and I feel funny lurking there. Facebook is a little more relevant, but still geared towards twenty-somethings, which (un)fortunately I am no longer eligible to call myself. However, if you take it all in with a grain of salt, Facebook can be a lot of fun. Linkedin is geared more towards professional relationships, but that isn’t all bad and can actually be useful.

As useful as some of the social networking sites are, at this stage it would seem that not too many people who graduated high school in the 80’s populate them. This is a shame because many of the people I miss the most I haven’t seen since 1990 or thereabouts. I am not (yet) willing to pay classmates.com to find out if anyone I knew in high school or college are still alive and surfing (the net, not the waves). So I’ll keep an eye out for old friends wherever I can, and when I can and hope for the best.